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Leviticus 23
44 verses with commentary
The Sabbath
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
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<strong>And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Appointed Feasts</strong>. God's sacred calendar including Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles, marking redemption and agricultural blessings.<br><br><br>The holiness demanded in Leviticus becomes possible through Christ, who both satisfies God's righteous requirements and transforms beli...
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XXIII.
(1) **And the Lord spake unto Moses.**—The regulations about the holiness of the sanctuary and the sacrifices, the holiness of the priests and the people, are now followed by statutes about holy seasons.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
**5-8. if ye offer a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the Lord, ye shall offer it at your own will--**Those which included thank offerings, or offerings made for vows, were always freewill offerings. Except the portions which, being waved and heaved, became the property of the priests (see Le 3:1-17), the rest of the victim was eaten by the offerer and his friend, under the following regulations,...
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Chapter 23
Chapter Outline
The feasts of the Lord, The Sabbath.(1-3)
The Passover, The offering of first-fruits.
(4-14)
The feast of Pentecost.(15-22)
The feast of Trumpets, The day of atonement.(23-32)
The feast of Tabernacles.(33-44)
**Verses 1-3**
In this chapter we have the institution of holy times; many of which have been mentioned before. Though the yearly ...
Read full commentary →Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts.
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<strong>Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Appointed Feasts</strong>. God's sacred calendar including Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles, marking redemption and agricultural blessings.<br><br>The central th...
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(2) **Speak unto the children of Israel.**—As the festivals here discussed were to be solemnly kept by them, Moses is ordered to address these regulations to the people or their representatives.
**Concerning the feasts of the Lord **. . . Better, *the festivals of the Lord which ye shall proclaim as holy convocations, these are my festivals. *That is, the following festivals God claims as His, on ...
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**9-10. And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field--**The right of the poor in Israel to glean after reapers, as well as to the unreaped corners of the field, was secured by a positive statute; and this, in addition to other enactments connected with the ceremonial law, formed a beneficial provision for their support. At the same time, proprietor...
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Chapter 23
Chapter Outline
The feasts of the Lord, The Sabbath.(1-3)
The Passover, The offering of first-fruits.
(4-14)
The feast of Pentecost.(15-22)
The feast of Trumpets, The day of atonement.(23-32)
The feast of Tabernacles.(33-44)
**Verses 1-3**
In this chapter we have the institution of holy times; many of which have been mentioned before. Though the yearly ...
Read full commentary →Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.
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<strong>Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Appointed Feasts</strong>. God's sacred calendar including Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles, marking redemption and agricultural blessings.<br><br>Th...
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(3) **Six days shall work be done.**—Recurring every week, and being the most important as well as the oldest of all festivals, the sabbath introduces the holy seasons. Hence, during the second Temple it was declared that “the sabbath is in importance equal to the whole law; he who profanes the sabbath openly is like him who transgresses the whole law.” The hour at which it began and ended was ann...
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**9-10. And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field--**The right of the poor in Israel to glean after reapers, as well as to the unreaped corners of the field, was secured by a positive statute; and this, in addition to other enactments connected with the ceremonial law, formed a beneficial provision for their support. At the same time, proprietor...
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Chapter 23
Chapter Outline
The feasts of the Lord, The Sabbath.(1-3)
The Passover, The offering of first-fruits.
(4-14)
The feast of Pentecost.(15-22)
The feast of Trumpets, The day of atonement.(23-32)
The feast of Tabernacles.(33-44)
**Verses 1-3**
In this chapter we have the institution of holy times; many of which have been mentioned before. Though the yearly ...
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These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons.
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<strong>These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Appointed Feasts</strong>. God's sacred calendar including Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles, marking redemption and agricultural blessings.<br><br>The central theme of Leviticus is God's holiness and the call for His people t...
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(4) **These are the feasts of the Lord.**—Because the following are the festivals proper as distinguished from the sabbath (see Leviticus 23:37-38), and because they are now enumerated in their regular order, the introductory heading is here repeated.
**Ye shall proclaim in their seasons.**—By the blast of trumpets on the day of the month on which they are to be observed.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
**11-16. Ye shall not steal--**A variety of social duties are inculcated in this passage, chiefly in reference to common and little-thought-of vices to which mankind are exceedingly prone; such as committing petty frauds, or not scrupling to violate truth in transactions of business, ridiculing bodily infirmities, or circulating stories to the prejudice of others. In opposition to these bad habits...
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**Verses 4-14**
The feast of the Passover was to continue seven days; not idle days, spent in sport, as many that are called Christians spend their holy-days. Offerings were made to the Lord at his altar; and the people were taught to employ their time in prayer, and praise, and godly meditation. The sheaf of first-fruits was typical of the Lord Jesus, who is risen from the dead as the First-f...
Read full commentary →In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD'S passover.
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<strong>In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD'S passover.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Appointed Feasts</strong>. God's sacred calendar including Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles, marking redemption and agricultural blessings.<br><br><br>What Leviticus portrayed through types and shadows, Christ fulfilled in reality through His incarnati...
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(5) **In the fourteenth day of the first month.**—This month is called *Abib *in the Pentateuch (Exodus 13:4; Exodus 23:15; Deuteronomy 16:1), and *Nisan *in the later books of Scripture (Nehemiah 2:1; Esther 3:7). The fourteenth day of this month is about the beginning of April. On this day, which was called both “the preparation for the Passover” (John 19:14), and “the first day of Passover,” al...
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**11-16. Ye shall not steal--**A variety of social duties are inculcated in this passage, chiefly in reference to common and little-thought-of vices to which mankind are exceedingly prone; such as committing petty frauds, or not scrupling to violate truth in transactions of business, ridiculing bodily infirmities, or circulating stories to the prejudice of others. In opposition to these bad habits...
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**Verses 4-14**
The feast of the Passover was to continue seven days; not idle days, spent in sport, as many that are called Christians spend their holy-days. Offerings were made to the Lord at his altar; and the people were taught to employ their time in prayer, and praise, and godly meditation. The sheaf of first-fruits was typical of the Lord Jesus, who is risen from the dead as the First-f...
Read full commentary →And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.
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<strong>And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Appointed Feasts</strong>. God's sacred calendar including Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles, marking redemption and agricultural blessings.<br><br><br>Hebrews 9-10 explains how Christ's once-fo...
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(6) **Seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.**—See Exodus 12:15; Exodus 12:18-20.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
**11-16. Ye shall not steal--**A variety of social duties are inculcated in this passage, chiefly in reference to common and little-thought-of vices to which mankind are exceedingly prone; such as committing petty frauds, or not scrupling to violate truth in transactions of business, ridiculing bodily infirmities, or circulating stories to the prejudice of others. In opposition to these bad habits...
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**Verses 4-14**
The feast of the Passover was to continue seven days; not idle days, spent in sport, as many that are called Christians spend their holy-days. Offerings were made to the Lord at his altar; and the people were taught to employ their time in prayer, and praise, and godly meditation. The sheaf of first-fruits was typical of the Lord Jesus, who is risen from the dead as the First-f...
Read full commentary →In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
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<strong>In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Appointed Feasts</strong>. God's sacred calendar including Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles, marking redemption and agricultural blessings.<br><br>The central theme of Leviticus is God's holiness and the call for His people to be holy. ...
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(7) **In the first day.**—That is, the first of the seven days, or the fifteenth of the month Nisan. (See Exodus 12:16.)
**Ye shall do no servile work therein.**—Servile work was defined during the second Temple to consist in building, pulling down edifices, weaving, reaping, threshing, winnowing, grinding, &c, whilst needful work which was allowed was killing beasts, kneading dough, baking bread,...
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**11-16. Ye shall not steal--**A variety of social duties are inculcated in this passage, chiefly in reference to common and little-thought-of vices to which mankind are exceedingly prone; such as committing petty frauds, or not scrupling to violate truth in transactions of business, ridiculing bodily infirmities, or circulating stories to the prejudice of others. In opposition to these bad habits...
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**Verses 4-14**
The feast of the Passover was to continue seven days; not idle days, spent in sport, as many that are called Christians spend their holy-days. Offerings were made to the Lord at his altar; and the people were taught to employ their time in prayer, and praise, and godly meditation. The sheaf of first-fruits was typical of the Lord Jesus, who is risen from the dead as the First-f...
Read full commentary →But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD seven days: in the seventh day is an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
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<strong>But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD seven days: in the seventh day is an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Appointed Feasts</strong>. God's sacred calendar including Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles, marking redemption and agricultural blessings.<br><br>The central theme of Levitic...
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(8) **But ye shall offer.**—Better, *and ye shall offer. *In addition to the daily ordinary sacrifices, there were offered on this day, and on the following six days, two young bullocks, a ram, and seven lambs of the first year, with meat offerings for a burnt offering, and a goat for a sin offering (Numbers 28:19-23). Be sides these public sacrifices, there were the voluntary offerings which were...
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**11-16. Ye shall not steal--**A variety of social duties are inculcated in this passage, chiefly in reference to common and little-thought-of vices to which mankind are exceedingly prone; such as committing petty frauds, or not scrupling to violate truth in transactions of business, ridiculing bodily infirmities, or circulating stories to the prejudice of others. In opposition to these bad habits...
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**Verses 4-14**
The feast of the Passover was to continue seven days; not idle days, spent in sport, as many that are called Christians spend their holy-days. Offerings were made to the Lord at his altar; and the people were taught to employ their time in prayer, and praise, and godly meditation. The sheaf of first-fruits was typical of the Lord Jesus, who is risen from the dead as the First-f...
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And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
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<strong>And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Appointed Feasts</strong>. God's sacred calendar including Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles, marking redemption and agricultural blessings.<br><br><br>What Leviticus portrayed through types and shadows, Christ fulfilled in reality through His incarnation, perfect life, atoning death, a...
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(9) **And the Lord spake unto Moses.**—As the celebration of the sheaf of first-fruits formed no part of the original institution of the Passover (Exodus 12:1-20), and as the omer ritual could not be observed in the wilderness, where there was no sowing of corn, it is here enacted as a prospective part of the feast of unleavened bread, and hence is introduced by a separate formula.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
**11-16. Ye shall not steal--**A variety of social duties are inculcated in this passage, chiefly in reference to common and little-thought-of vices to which mankind are exceedingly prone; such as committing petty frauds, or not scrupling to violate truth in transactions of business, ridiculing bodily infirmities, or circulating stories to the prejudice of others. In opposition to these bad habits...
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**Verses 4-14**
The feast of the Passover was to continue seven days; not idle days, spent in sport, as many that are called Christians spend their holy-days. Offerings were made to the Lord at his altar; and the people were taught to employ their time in prayer, and praise, and godly meditation. The sheaf of first-fruits was typical of the Lord Jesus, who is risen from the dead as the First-f...
Read full commentary →Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest: sheaf: or, handful: Heb. omer
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<strong>Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest:</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Appointed Feasts</strong>. God's sacred calendar including Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles, marking r...
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(10) **When ye be come into the land.**—This is the third of the four instances in Leviticus where a law is given prospectively, having no immediate bearing on the condition of the people of Israel. (See Leviticus 19:23.)
**Then ye shall bring a sheaf of the first-fruits of your harvest.**—Better, *ye shall bring the first-fruit omer of your harvest. *The omer had to be from the best and ripest st...
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**17. thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour--**Instead of cherishing latent feelings of malice or meditating purposes of revenge against a person who has committed an insult or injury against them, God's people were taught to remonstrate with the offender and endeavor, by calm and kindly reason, to bring him to a sense of his fault.
**not suffer sin upon him--**literally, "that ye may not ...
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**Verses 4-14**
The feast of the Passover was to continue seven days; not idle days, spent in sport, as many that are called Christians spend their holy-days. Offerings were made to the Lord at his altar; and the people were taught to employ their time in prayer, and praise, and godly meditation. The sheaf of first-fruits was typical of the Lord Jesus, who is risen from the dead as the First-f...
Read full commentary →And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it.
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<strong>And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Appointed Feasts</strong>. God's sacred calendar including Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles, marking redemption and agricultural blessings.<br><br>The Aaronic priesthood mediated between God and Isr...
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(11) **And he shall wave the sheaf.**—Better, *and he shall wave the omer. *The priest mixed with the omer of meal a log of oil, put on a handful of frankincense (see Leviticus 2:15), as on other meat-offerings, waved it, took a handful of it and caused it to ascend in smoke (see Leviticus 2:16), and then consumed the residue in company with his fellow-priests. Immediately after this ceremony, bre...
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**18. thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself--**The word "neighbour" is used as synonymous with "fellow creature." The Israelites in a later age restricted its meaning as applicable only to their own countrymen. This narrow interpretation was refuted by our Lord in a beautiful parable (Lu 10:30-37).
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
**Verses 4-14**
The feast of the Passover was to continue seven days; not idle days, spent in sport, as many that are called Christians spend their holy-days. Offerings were made to the Lord at his altar; and the people were taught to employ their time in prayer, and praise, and godly meditation. The sheaf of first-fruits was typical of the Lord Jesus, who is risen from the dead as the First-f...
Read full commentary →And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf an he lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering unto the LORD.
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<strong>And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf an he lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering unto the LORD.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Appointed Feasts</strong>. God's sacred calendar including Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles, marking redemption and agricultural blessings.<br><br>The five main offerings (burnt, grain, peace, ...
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(12) **And he shall offer.—**With the omer of the first-fruits a lamb was offered, besides the sacrifices for the feast enumerated in Leviticus 23:8.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
**19. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind--**This prohibition was probably intended to discourage a practice which seemed to infringe upon the economy which God has established in the animal kingdom.
**thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed--**This also was directed against an idolatrous practice, namely, that of the ancient Zabians, or fire-worshippers, who sowed di...
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**Verses 4-14**
The feast of the Passover was to continue seven days; not idle days, spent in sport, as many that are called Christians spend their holy-days. Offerings were made to the Lord at his altar; and the people were taught to employ their time in prayer, and praise, and godly meditation. The sheaf of first-fruits was typical of the Lord Jesus, who is risen from the dead as the First-f...
Read full commentary →And the meat offering thereof shall be two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire unto the LORD for a sweet savour: and the drink offering thereof shall be of wine, the fourth part of an hin.
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<strong>And the meat offering thereof shall be two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire unto the LORD for a sweet savour: and the drink offering thereof shall be of wine, the fourth part of an hin.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Appointed Feasts</strong>. God's sacred calendar including Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles, marking re...
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(13) **Two tenth deals of fine flour.**—Ordinarily only one-tenth deal of fine Hour was required for a meat-offering (Exodus 29:40; Numbers 15:4; Numbers 28:9; Numbers 28:13, &c.), to exhibit the plentiful harvest. With the exception of the handful of flour and oil, and of all the frankincense, this meat-offering was the perquisite of the priests. (See Leviticus 2:2-3.)
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
**Verses 4-14**
The feast of the Passover was to continue seven days; not idle days, spent in sport, as many that are called Christians spend their holy-days. Offerings were made to the Lord at his altar; and the people were taught to employ their time in prayer, and praise, and godly meditation. The sheaf of first-fruits was typical of the Lord Jesus, who is risen from the dead as the First-f...
Read full commentary →And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
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<strong>And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Appointed Feasts</strong>. God's sacred calendar including Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles, marking redem...
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(14) **And ye shall eat neither bread.**—In acknowledgment of the bountiful Giver of the new harvest, it was ordained that the Israelites were not to taste any of it till they had dedicated the first- fruit to the Lord. By bread is meant the unleavened bread which they were now enjoined to eat. The unleavened bread for the first and the second days of Passover was prepared from the last year’s har...
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**Verses 4-14**
The feast of the Passover was to continue seven days; not idle days, spent in sport, as many that are called Christians spend their holy-days. Offerings were made to the Lord at his altar; and the people were taught to employ their time in prayer, and praise, and godly meditation. The sheaf of first-fruits was typical of the Lord Jesus, who is risen from the dead as the First-f...
Read full commentary →And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete:
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<strong>And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete:</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Appointed Feasts</strong>. God's sacred calendar including Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles, marking redemption and agricultural blessings.<br><br>The five main offeri...
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(15) **Ye shall count . . . from the morrow after the sabbath.**—That is, from the day following the first day of holy convocation, which was a rest day. As this was the fifteenth of Nisan, the counting began from the sixteenth (see Leviticus 23:11), the day on which the omer of the first-fruits was presented to the Lord.
**Seven sabbaths shall be complete.**—Better, *seven weeks shall be complete...
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**Verses 15-22**
The feast of Weeks was held in remembrance of the giving of the law, fifty days after the departure from Egypt; and looked forward to the outpouring of the Holy Ghost, fifty days after Christ our Passover was sacrificed for us. On that day the apostles presented the first-fruits of the Christian church to God. To the institution of the feast of Pentecost, is added a repetition...
Read full commentary →Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the LORD.
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<strong>Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the LORD.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Appointed Feasts</strong>. God's sacred calendar including Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles, marking redemption and agricultural blessings.<br><br>The five main offerings (burnt, grain, peace, sin...
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(16) **Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath.**—That is, the day after the seven complete weeks, or the fiftieth day. Hence its name, “Pentecost, or fiftieth-day” feast in the New Testament (Acts 2:1; Acts 20:16; 1Corinthians 16:8), and “feast of weeks” in the Old Testament (Exodus 34:12; Deuteronomy 16:10; Deuteronomy 16:16; 2Chronicles 8:13). The fiftieth day, according to the Jewish ca...
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**23-25. ye shall count the fruit thereof as uncircumcised; three years ... it shall not be eaten of--**"The wisdom of this law is very striking. Every gardener will teach us not to let fruit trees bear in their earliest years, but to pluck off the blossoms: and for this reason, that they will thus thrive the better, and bear more abundantly afterwards. The very expression, 'to regard them as unci...
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**Verses 15-22**
The feast of Weeks was held in remembrance of the giving of the law, fifty days after the departure from Egypt; and looked forward to the outpouring of the Holy Ghost, fifty days after Christ our Passover was sacrificed for us. On that day the apostles presented the first-fruits of the Christian church to God. To the institution of the feast of Pentecost, is added a repetition...
Read full commentary →Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the LORD.
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<strong>Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the LORD.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Appointed Feasts</strong>. God's sacred calendar including Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles, marking redemption and agricultural blessings.<br><br><...
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(17) **Ye shall bring out of your habitations.**—During the second Temple this clause was taken to be elliptical, and to denote ye shall *bring out of, *or *from, the land of your habitations, *that is, from Palestine (Numbers 15:2).
**Two wave loaves of two tenth deals.**—These two loaves were prepared in the following manner. Three seahs of new wheat were brought into the court of the Temple, we...
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**23-25. ye shall count the fruit thereof as uncircumcised; three years ... it shall not be eaten of--**"The wisdom of this law is very striking. Every gardener will teach us not to let fruit trees bear in their earliest years, but to pluck off the blossoms: and for this reason, that they will thus thrive the better, and bear more abundantly afterwards. The very expression, 'to regard them as unci...
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**Verses 15-22**
The feast of Weeks was held in remembrance of the giving of the law, fifty days after the departure from Egypt; and looked forward to the outpouring of the Holy Ghost, fifty days after Christ our Passover was sacrificed for us. On that day the apostles presented the first-fruits of the Christian church to God. To the institution of the feast of Pentecost, is added a repetition...
Read full commentary →And ye shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year, and one young bullock, and two rams: they shall be for a burnt offering unto the LORD, with their meat offering, and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of sweet savour unto the LORD.
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<strong>And ye shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year, and one young bullock, and two rams: they shall be for a burnt offering unto the LORD, with their meat offering, and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of sweet savour unto the LORD.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Appointed Feasts</strong>. God's sacred calend...
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(18) **And ye shall offer with the bread seven lambs.**—The additional sacrifices for the feast day consisted of two bullocks, one ram, and seven lambs, which were a burnt offering, and of a goat as a sin offering (Numbers 28:26-27; Numbers 28:30). Besides these, however, the new meat offering of the two loaves mentioned in the text before us is to be brought, and with it are to be offered one bul...
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**23-25. ye shall count the fruit thereof as uncircumcised; three years ... it shall not be eaten of--**"The wisdom of this law is very striking. Every gardener will teach us not to let fruit trees bear in their earliest years, but to pluck off the blossoms: and for this reason, that they will thus thrive the better, and bear more abundantly afterwards. The very expression, 'to regard them as unci...
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**Verses 15-22**
The feast of Weeks was held in remembrance of the giving of the law, fifty days after the departure from Egypt; and looked forward to the outpouring of the Holy Ghost, fifty days after Christ our Passover was sacrificed for us. On that day the apostles presented the first-fruits of the Christian church to God. To the institution of the feast of Pentecost, is added a repetition...
Read full commentary →Then ye shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for a sin offering, and two lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of peace offerings.
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<strong>Then ye shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for a sin offering, and two lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of peace offerings.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Appointed Feasts</strong>. God's sacred calendar including Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles, marking redemption and agricultural blessings.<br><br>The five main offerings (burnt, grain, peace,...
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(19) **Then ye shall sacrifice.**—Better, *and ye shall sacrifice. *They were, moreover, to offer a goat for a sin offering, and two lambs for a peace offering. Hence Josephus, who was an eye-witness to the Temple service, in summing up the number of animal sacrifices on this festival, says that there were fourteen lambs, three young bullocks, and three goats, the number *two *instead of three goa...
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**26. shall not eat any thing with the blood--**(See on Le 17:10).
**neither ... use enchantment, nor observe times--**The former refers to divination by serpents--one of the earliest forms of enchantment, and the other means the observation, literally, of clouds, as a study of the appearance and motion of clouds was a common way of foretelling good or bad fortune. Such absurd but deep-rooted su...
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**Verses 15-22**
The feast of Weeks was held in remembrance of the giving of the law, fifty days after the departure from Egypt; and looked forward to the outpouring of the Holy Ghost, fifty days after Christ our Passover was sacrificed for us. On that day the apostles presented the first-fruits of the Christian church to God. To the institution of the feast of Pentecost, is added a repetition...
Read full commentary →And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits for a wave offering before the LORD, with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the LORD for the priest.
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<strong>And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits for a wave offering before the LORD, with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the LORD for the priest.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Appointed Feasts</strong>. God's sacred calendar including Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles, marking redemption and agricultural blessings.<br><br>The centr...
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(20) **And the priest shall wave them . . . with the two lambs.**—During the second Temple this was done in the following manner :—The two lambs were brought into the Temple, and waved together or separately by the priest while yet alive. Whereupon they were slain, and the priest took the breast and shoulder of each one (see Leviticus 7:30-32), laid them down by the side of the two loaves, put bot...
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**27. Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, &c.--**It seems probable that this fashion had been learned by the Israelites in Egypt, for the ancient Egyptians had their dark locks cropped short or shaved with great nicety, so that what remained on the crown appeared in the form of a circle surrounding the head, while the beard was dressed into a square form. This kind of coiffure had a ...
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**Verses 15-22**
The feast of Weeks was held in remembrance of the giving of the law, fifty days after the departure from Egypt; and looked forward to the outpouring of the Holy Ghost, fifty days after Christ our Passover was sacrificed for us. On that day the apostles presented the first-fruits of the Christian church to God. To the institution of the feast of Pentecost, is added a repetition...
Read full commentary →And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
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<strong>And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Appointed Feasts</strong>. God's sacred calendar including Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles, marking redemption and ag...
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(21).**And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day.**—This proclamation was made to the people by the priest with trumpet blasts.
**Ye shall do no servile work.**—For what constituted servile work, see Leviticus 23:7.
**A statute for ever . . . . —**See Leviticus 23:14, Leviticus 3:17; Leviticus 7:23-25. In accordance with this declaration, and with the fact that the Jews during the second Temple re...
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**28. Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead--**The practice of making deep gashes on the face and arms and legs, in time of bereavement, was universal among the heathen, and it was deemed a becoming mark of respect for the dead, as well as a sort of propitiatory offering to the deities who presided over death and the grave. The Jews learned this custom in Egypt, and though wean...
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**Verses 15-22**
The feast of Weeks was held in remembrance of the giving of the law, fifty days after the departure from Egypt; and looked forward to the outpouring of the Holy Ghost, fifty days after Christ our Passover was sacrificed for us. On that day the apostles presented the first-fruits of the Christian church to God. To the institution of the feast of Pentecost, is added a repetition...
Read full commentary →And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am the LORD your God.
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<strong>And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am the LORD your God.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Appointed Feasts</strong>. God's sacred calendar including Passover...
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(22) **Thou shalt not make a clean riddance.**—Better, *thou shalt not wholly reap, *as the Authorised version translates the same phrase in Leviticus 19:9. In the midst of rejoicing and thankfulness to God for a bountiful harvest, the Lawgiver again inculcates the duty of remembering the poor, and reminds the proprietors of the land that the needy have legally a share in the produce, as has been ...
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**Verses 15-22**
The feast of Weeks was held in remembrance of the giving of the law, fifty days after the departure from Egypt; and looked forward to the outpouring of the Holy Ghost, fifty days after Christ our Passover was sacrificed for us. On that day the apostles presented the first-fruits of the Christian church to God. To the institution of the feast of Pentecost, is added a repetition...
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And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
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<strong>And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Appointed Feasts</strong>. God's sacred calendar including Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles, marking redemption and agricultural blessings.<br><br><br>Every sacrifice and ritual in Leviticus points forward to Jesus Christ, who fulfills the entire sacrificial system as both perfect sacr...
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(23) **And the Lord spake unto Moses.**—The new festival about which regulations are given in Leviticus 23:24-32, is introduced by a separate formula, which describes the subject matter as a separate and distinct Divine communication.
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**30. Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary--**This precept is frequently repeated along with the prohibition of idolatrous practices, and here it stands closely connected with the superstitions forbidden in the previous verses.
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**Verses 23-32**
the blowing of trumpets represented the preaching of the gospel, by which men are called to repent of sin, and to accept the salvation of Christ, which was signified by the day of atonement. Also it invited to rejoice in God, and become strangers and pilgrims on earth, which was denoted by the feast of Tabernacles, observed in the same month. At the beginning of the year, they...
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<strong>Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Appointed Feasts</strong>. God's sacred calendar including Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles, marking redemption and agricultural blessings.<br><br>T...
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(24) **A memorial of blowing of trumpets.**—Literally, *remembrance blowing, *for which see Numbers 29:1, the only place in the Old Testament where this festival is named as “the day of blessing,” *i.e., *the trumpets. As the first of *Ethanim, *as the month is called in the Bible (1Kings 8:2), or *Tishri, *as the Jews call it, in which this festival occurs, is the commencement of the civil new ye...
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**31. Regard not them that have familiar spirits--**The Hebrew word, rendered "familiar spirit," signifies the belly, and sometimes a leathern bottle, from its similarity to the belly. It was applied in the sense of this passage to ventriloquists, who pretended to have communication with the invisible world. The Hebrews were strictly forbidden to consult them as the vain but high pretensions of th...
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**Verses 23-32**
the blowing of trumpets represented the preaching of the gospel, by which men are called to repent of sin, and to accept the salvation of Christ, which was signified by the day of atonement. Also it invited to rejoice in God, and become strangers and pilgrims on earth, which was denoted by the feast of Tabernacles, observed in the same month. At the beginning of the year, they...
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<strong>Ye shall do no servile work therein: but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Appointed Feasts</strong>. God's sacred calendar including Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles, marking redemption and agricultural blessings.<br><br>The five main offerings (burnt, grain, peace, sin, and guilt) addressed different ...
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(25) **Ye shall do no servile work.**—With the exception of what was absolutely necessary, all handicraft and trade were stopped. (See Leviticus 23:7.)
**But ye shall offer.**—As the festival is also the new moon, a threefold sacrifice was offered on it, (1) viz. the ordinary daily sacrifice which was offered first; (2) the appointed new moon sacrifice (Numbers 28:11-15); and (3) the sacrifice for...
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**Verses 23-32**
the blowing of trumpets represented the preaching of the gospel, by which men are called to repent of sin, and to accept the salvation of Christ, which was signified by the day of atonement. Also it invited to rejoice in God, and become strangers and pilgrims on earth, which was denoted by the feast of Tabernacles, observed in the same month. At the beginning of the year, they...
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And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
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<strong>And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Appointed Feasts</strong>. God's sacred calendar including Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles, marking redemption and agricultural blessings.<br><br><br>The access to God's presence that Leviticus carefully regulated is now freely available through Christ's blood, tearing the veil and op...
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(26) **And the Lord spake unto Moses.**—The same formula which introduced the regulations about the feast of trumpets (see Leviticus 23:23), now introduces the laws about the day of Atonement.
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**33-34. if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him--**The Israelites were to hold out encouragement to strangers to settle among them, that they might be brought to the knowledge and worship of the true God; and with this in view, they were enjoined to treat them not as aliens, but as friends, on the ground that they themselves, who were strangers in Egypt, were at first k...
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**Verses 23-32**
the blowing of trumpets represented the preaching of the gospel, by which men are called to repent of sin, and to accept the salvation of Christ, which was signified by the day of atonement. Also it invited to rejoice in God, and become strangers and pilgrims on earth, which was denoted by the feast of Tabernacles, observed in the same month. At the beginning of the year, they...
Read full commentary →Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
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<strong>Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Appointed Feasts</strong>. God's sacred calendar including Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles, marking redemption and agric...
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(27) **Also on the tenth.**—See Leviticus 16:29.
**And ye shall afflict your souls.**—That is, fast. (See Leviticus 16:29.)
**And offer an offering.**—See Numbers 29:8-11.
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**33-34. if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him--**The Israelites were to hold out encouragement to strangers to settle among them, that they might be brought to the knowledge and worship of the true God; and with this in view, they were enjoined to treat them not as aliens, but as friends, on the ground that they themselves, who were strangers in Egypt, were at first k...
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**Verses 23-32**
the blowing of trumpets represented the preaching of the gospel, by which men are called to repent of sin, and to accept the salvation of Christ, which was signified by the day of atonement. Also it invited to rejoice in God, and become strangers and pilgrims on earth, which was denoted by the feast of Tabernacles, observed in the same month. At the beginning of the year, they...
Read full commentary →And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the LORD your God.
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<strong>And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the LORD your God.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Appointed Feasts</strong>. God's sacred calendar including Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles, marking redemption and agricultural blessings.<br><br>The Hebrew word <em>kaphar</em> (כָּפַר) means 'to ...
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(28) **And ye shall do no work.**—Better, *And ye shall do no manner of work, *as the Authorised version has it in Leviticus 23:31 of this very chapter. (See Leviticus 16:29.) This is the only day which had to be kept like the sabbath, and on which no manner of work was allowed. (See Leviticus 23:3.)
**To make an atonement for you.**—See Leviticus 16:30.
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**Verses 23-32**
the blowing of trumpets represented the preaching of the gospel, by which men are called to repent of sin, and to accept the salvation of Christ, which was signified by the day of atonement. Also it invited to rejoice in God, and become strangers and pilgrims on earth, which was denoted by the feast of Tabernacles, observed in the same month. At the beginning of the year, they...
Read full commentary →For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.
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<strong>For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Appointed Feasts</strong>. God's sacred calendar including Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles, marking redemption and agricultural blessings.<br><br><br>Hebrews 9-10 explains how Christ's once-for-all sacrifice s...
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(29) F**or whatsoever soul . . . he shall be cut off from among his people.**—Better, *For whatsoever soul *. . . *that shall be cut off from his people. *(See Note on Leviticus 19:8.) Any member of the community who does not fast on this day God himself will punish with excision, except those who through old age or sickness are unable to endure it.
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**Verses 23-32**
the blowing of trumpets represented the preaching of the gospel, by which men are called to repent of sin, and to accept the salvation of Christ, which was signified by the day of atonement. Also it invited to rejoice in God, and become strangers and pilgrims on earth, which was denoted by the feast of Tabernacles, observed in the same month. At the beginning of the year, they...
Read full commentary →And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people.
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<strong>And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Appointed Feasts</strong>. God's sacred calendar including Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles, marking redemption and agricultural blessings.<br><br><br>What Leviticus portrayed through types and shadows, Christ...
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(30) **That doeth any work.**—That is, engages in any kind of work whatsoever, since this is the only festival which is to be kept like the sabbath.
**Will I destroy.**—Whilst in all other instances where God threatens the offender with the penalty of excision the expression “cut off” is used, in the passage before us the word is “destroy.” This stronger term may be owing to the fact that the day ...
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**37. I am the Lord--**This solemn admonition, by which these various precepts are repeatedly sanctioned, is equivalent to "I, your Creator--your Deliverer from bondage, and your Sovereign, who have wisdom to establish laws, have power also to punish the violation of them." It was well fitted to impress the minds of the Israelites with a sense of their duty and God's claims to obedience.
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**Verses 23-32**
the blowing of trumpets represented the preaching of the gospel, by which men are called to repent of sin, and to accept the salvation of Christ, which was signified by the day of atonement. Also it invited to rejoice in God, and become strangers and pilgrims on earth, which was denoted by the feast of Tabernacles, observed in the same month. At the beginning of the year, they...
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<strong>Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Appointed Feasts</strong>. God's sacred calendar including Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles, marking redemption and agricultural blessings.<br><br><br>What Leviticus portrayed through types and shadows, Christ fu...
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(31) **Ye shall do no manner of work.**—Owing to the great sanctity of the day, the command to abstain from all work is repeated after the enactment of the penalty, in order to impress it more effectually upon the people.
**A statute for ever. . . **—See Leviticus 3:17; Leviticus 7:23-25.
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**Verses 23-32**
the blowing of trumpets represented the preaching of the gospel, by which men are called to repent of sin, and to accept the salvation of Christ, which was signified by the day of atonement. Also it invited to rejoice in God, and become strangers and pilgrims on earth, which was denoted by the feast of Tabernacles, observed in the same month. At the beginning of the year, they...
Read full commentary →It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath. celebrate: Heb. rest
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<strong>It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Appointed Feasts</strong>. God's sacred calendar including Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles, marking redemption and agricultural blessings.<br><br><br>Every sa...
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(32) **It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest.**—Rather, *It shall be a sabbath of rest unto you, *as the Authorised version renders it in Leviticus 16:31. It is most unaccountable why the translators varied this important formula, when it is exactly the same in the original in both passages. For the import of this phrase see Leviticus 16:31.
**And ye shall afflict your souls.**—Having set forth i...
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**Verses 23-32**
the blowing of trumpets represented the preaching of the gospel, by which men are called to repent of sin, and to accept the salvation of Christ, which was signified by the day of atonement. Also it invited to rejoice in God, and become strangers and pilgrims on earth, which was denoted by the feast of Tabernacles, observed in the same month. At the beginning of the year, they...
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And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
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<strong>And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Appointed Feasts</strong>. God's sacred calendar including Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles, marking redemption and agricultural blessings.<br><br><br>The New Testament reveals that Christ's sacrifice accomplishes what the Levitical system could only symbolize—complete forgiveness and ...
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(33) **And the Lord spake unto Moses.**—Like the festivals of new year and the day of Atonement (see Leviticus 23:23; Leviticus 23:26), the feast of Tabernacles, which is discussed in Leviticus 23:34-43, is introduced by this special formula, thus indicating that it was a separate communication.
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CHAPTER 20 Le 20:1-27. Giving One's Seed to Molech.
**2. Whosoever ... giveth any of his seed unto Molech--**(See on Le 18:21).
**the people of the land shall stone him with stones, &c.--**Criminals who were condemned to be stoned were led, with their hands bound, without the gates to a small eminence, where was a large stone placed at the bottom. When they had approached within ten cubits ...
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**Verses 33-44**
In the feast of Tabernacles there was a remembrance of their dwelling in tents, or booths, in the wilderness, as well as their fathers dwelling in tents in Canaan; to remind them of their origin and their deliverance. Christ's tabernacling on earth in human nature, might also be prefigured. And it represents the believer's life on earth: a stranger and pilgrim here below, his ...
Read full commentary →Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the LORD.
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<strong>Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the LORD.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Appointed Feasts</strong>. God's sacred calendar including Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles, marking redemption and agricultural blessings.<br><br><br>Every sacrifice and ritual ...
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(34) **The fifteenth day of this seventh month.**—That is, the month Tishri, corresponding to the end of September and the beginning of October, and only four days after the day of Atonement.
**Shall be the feast of tabernacles.**—How and where these tabernacles are to be erected the law here gives no directions. The details, as in many other enactments, are left to the administrators of the Law. ...
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**Verses 33-44**
In the feast of Tabernacles there was a remembrance of their dwelling in tents, or booths, in the wilderness, as well as their fathers dwelling in tents in Canaan; to remind them of their origin and their deliverance. Christ's tabernacling on earth in human nature, might also be prefigured. And it represents the believer's life on earth: a stranger and pilgrim here below, his ...
Read full commentary →On the first day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
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<strong>On the first day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Appointed Feasts</strong>. God's sacred calendar including Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles, marking redemption and agricultural blessings.<br><br>The central theme of Leviticus is God's holiness and the call for His people to be holy. The H...
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(35) **on the first day shall be an holy convocation.**—At daybreak of this day one of the priests, accompanied by a jubilant procession and a band of music, went with a golden pitcher to the pool of Siloam, and having filled it with water, returned with it to the Temple in time to join his brother-priests in the morning sacrifices. He entered from the south through the water-gate, when he was wel...
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**4. If the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from the man, &c.--**that is, connive at their countrymen practising the horrid rites of Molech. Awful was it that any Hebrew parents could so violate their national covenant, and no wonder that God denounced the severest penalties against them and their families.
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**Verses 33-44**
In the feast of Tabernacles there was a remembrance of their dwelling in tents, or booths, in the wilderness, as well as their fathers dwelling in tents in Canaan; to remind them of their origin and their deliverance. Christ's tabernacling on earth in human nature, might also be prefigured. And it represents the believer's life on earth: a stranger and pilgrim here below, his ...
Read full commentary →Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: it is a solemn assembly; and ye shall do no servile work therein. solemn: Heb. day of restraint
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<strong>Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: it is a solemn assembly; and ye shall do no servile work therein.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Appointed Feasts</strong>. God's sacred calendar including Passover, Pentecost, a...
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(36) **Seven days ye shall offer.**—The special sacrifices for this day consisted of a burnt offering of thirteen bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs, with an appropriate meat and drink offering, and a goat for a sin offering (Numbers 29:12-38). Whereupon were offered the peace offerings, the vows and the free-will offerings which constituted the repasts of the people. Whilst these sacrifices w...
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**Verses 33-44**
In the feast of Tabernacles there was a remembrance of their dwelling in tents, or booths, in the wilderness, as well as their fathers dwelling in tents in Canaan; to remind them of their origin and their deliverance. Christ's tabernacling on earth in human nature, might also be prefigured. And it represents the believer's life on earth: a stranger and pilgrim here below, his ...
Read full commentary →These are the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, and a meat offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, every thing upon his day:
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<strong>These are the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, and a meat offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, every thing upon his day:</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Appointed Feasts</strong>. God's sacred calendar including Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles, m...
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(37) **These are the feasts of the Lord.**—That is, the above-named six festivals, viz.—(1) the Passover (Leviticus 23:4-14), (2) Pentecost Leviticus 23:15-22), (3) New Year (Leviticus 23:23-25), (4) Day of Atonement (Leviticus 23:26-32), (5) Tabernacles (Leviticus 23:33-36 a), and (6) the concluding festival (Leviticus 23:36 b). Thus the list of these festivals concludes with the formula by which...
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**Verses 33-44**
In the feast of Tabernacles there was a remembrance of their dwelling in tents, or booths, in the wilderness, as well as their fathers dwelling in tents in Canaan; to remind them of their origin and their deliverance. Christ's tabernacling on earth in human nature, might also be prefigured. And it represents the believer's life on earth: a stranger and pilgrim here below, his ...
Read full commentary →Beside the sabbaths of the LORD, and beside your gifts, and beside all your vows, and beside all your freewill offerings, which ye give unto the LORD.
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<strong>Beside the sabbaths of the LORD, and beside your gifts, and beside all your vows, and beside all your freewill offerings, which ye give unto the LORD.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Appointed Feasts</strong>. God's sacred calendar including Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles, marking redemption and agricultural blessings.<br><br>The five main offerings (bu...
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(38) **Beside the sabbaths.**—By a figure of speech called metonymy, which is frequently used both in the Old and New Testaments, the expression sabbaths stands here for *the sacrifices of the sabbaths, *just as in Leviticus 25:6 “sabbath of the land” denotes the produce of the sabbath of the land, or of the sabbatic year, and as the phrase “it is written in the prophets” (Mark 1:2) is used for “i...
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**7-19. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy--**The minute specification of the incestuous and unnatural crimes here enumerated shows their sad prevalence amongst the idolatrous nations around, and the extreme proneness of the Israelites to follow the customs of their neighbors. It is to be understood, that, whenever mention is made that the offender was "to be put to death" without descr...
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**Verses 33-44**
In the feast of Tabernacles there was a remembrance of their dwelling in tents, or booths, in the wilderness, as well as their fathers dwelling in tents in Canaan; to remind them of their origin and their deliverance. Christ's tabernacling on earth in human nature, might also be prefigured. And it represents the believer's life on earth: a stranger and pilgrim here below, his ...
Read full commentary →Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days: on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath.
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<strong>Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days: on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Appointed Feasts</strong>. God's sacred calendar including Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles, marking r...
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(39) **Also in the fifteenth day.**—After the list of festivals discussed in this chapter has been summed up in Leviticus 23:37-38, the next five verses recur to the feast of Tabernacles. The regulations are supplementary to those given before, and embody a separate enactment.
**When ye have gathered in the fruit of the land.**—That is, those productions which ripen in the autumnal season, as whea...
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**7-19. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy--**The minute specification of the incestuous and unnatural crimes here enumerated shows their sad prevalence amongst the idolatrous nations around, and the extreme proneness of the Israelites to follow the customs of their neighbors. It is to be understood, that, whenever mention is made that the offender was "to be put to death" without descr...
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**Verses 33-44**
In the feast of Tabernacles there was a remembrance of their dwelling in tents, or booths, in the wilderness, as well as their fathers dwelling in tents in Canaan; to remind them of their origin and their deliverance. Christ's tabernacling on earth in human nature, might also be prefigured. And it represents the believer's life on earth: a stranger and pilgrim here below, his ...
Read full commentary →And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days. boughs of goodly trees: Heb. fruit of, etc
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<strong>And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Appointed Feasts</strong>. God's sacred calendar including Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles, marking redemption and agr...
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(40) **And ye shall take you on the first day.**—The four species of vegetable production here ordered are a distinctive feature of this festival. They have been most minutely defined during the second Temple.
**Boughs of goodly trees.**—Better, *the fruit of goodly trees, *as the margin rightly renders it. As this phrase is too indefinite, and may simply denote the fruit of any choice fruit-tree,...
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**7-19. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy--**The minute specification of the incestuous and unnatural crimes here enumerated shows their sad prevalence amongst the idolatrous nations around, and the extreme proneness of the Israelites to follow the customs of their neighbors. It is to be understood, that, whenever mention is made that the offender was "to be put to death" without descr...
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**Verses 33-44**
In the feast of Tabernacles there was a remembrance of their dwelling in tents, or booths, in the wilderness, as well as their fathers dwelling in tents in Canaan; to remind them of their origin and their deliverance. Christ's tabernacling on earth in human nature, might also be prefigured. And it represents the believer's life on earth: a stranger and pilgrim here below, his ...
Read full commentary →And ye shall keep it a feast unto the LORD seven days in the year. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations: ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month.
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<strong>And ye shall keep it a feast unto the LORD seven days in the year. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations: ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Appointed Feasts</strong>. God's sacred calendar including Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles, marking redemption and agricultural blessings.<br><br><br>The holines...
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(41) **Seven days in the year.**—These seven days denote the feast of Tabernacles proper, whilst the eight days in Leviticus 23:39 include the concluding festival of the last day. (See Leviticus 23:36.)
**In your generations.**—Better, *throughout your generations, *as the Authorised version renders it in Leviticus 23:14; Leviticus 23:21; Leviticus 23:31 of this very chapter. (See Leviticus 3:17.)
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
**7-19. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy--**The minute specification of the incestuous and unnatural crimes here enumerated shows their sad prevalence amongst the idolatrous nations around, and the extreme proneness of the Israelites to follow the customs of their neighbors. It is to be understood, that, whenever mention is made that the offender was "to be put to death" without descr...
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**Verses 33-44**
In the feast of Tabernacles there was a remembrance of their dwelling in tents, or booths, in the wilderness, as well as their fathers dwelling in tents in Canaan; to remind them of their origin and their deliverance. Christ's tabernacling on earth in human nature, might also be prefigured. And it represents the believer's life on earth: a stranger and pilgrim here below, his ...
Read full commentary →Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths:
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<strong>Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths:</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Appointed Feasts</strong>. God's sacred calendar including Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles, marking redemption and agricultural blessings.<br><br><br>What Leviticus portrayed through types and shadows, Christ fulfilled in reality throu...
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(42) **Dwell in booths seven days.**—Because the eighth day was a separate festival, when the booths were no more used. (See Leviticus 23:36.)
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
**7-19. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy--**The minute specification of the incestuous and unnatural crimes here enumerated shows their sad prevalence amongst the idolatrous nations around, and the extreme proneness of the Israelites to follow the customs of their neighbors. It is to be understood, that, whenever mention is made that the offender was "to be put to death" without descr...
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**Verses 33-44**
In the feast of Tabernacles there was a remembrance of their dwelling in tents, or booths, in the wilderness, as well as their fathers dwelling in tents in Canaan; to remind them of their origin and their deliverance. Christ's tabernacling on earth in human nature, might also be prefigured. And it represents the believer's life on earth: a stranger and pilgrim here below, his ...
Read full commentary →That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
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<strong>That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Appointed Feasts</strong>. God's sacred calendar including Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles, marking redemption and agricultural blessings.<br><br><br>The access to God'...
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(43) **That your generations may know.**—When their posterity are securely occupying the land of Canaan, the temporary dwelling in booths once a year may remind them of the goodness of God vouchsafed to their fathers in delivering them from the land of bondage, and sheltering them in booths in the wilderness.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
**7-19. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy--**The minute specification of the incestuous and unnatural crimes here enumerated shows their sad prevalence amongst the idolatrous nations around, and the extreme proneness of the Israelites to follow the customs of their neighbors. It is to be understood, that, whenever mention is made that the offender was "to be put to death" without descr...
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**Verses 33-44**
In the feast of Tabernacles there was a remembrance of their dwelling in tents, or booths, in the wilderness, as well as their fathers dwelling in tents in Canaan; to remind them of their origin and their deliverance. Christ's tabernacling on earth in human nature, might also be prefigured. And it represents the believer's life on earth: a stranger and pilgrim here below, his ...
Read full commentary →And Moses declared unto the children of Israel the feasts of the LORD.
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<strong>And Moses declared unto the children of Israel the feasts of the LORD.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Appointed Feasts</strong>. God's sacred calendar including Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles, marking redemption and agricultural blessings.<br><br><br>The New Testament reveals that Christ's sacrifice accomplishes what the Levitical system could only sym...
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(44) **And Moses declared.**—In accordance with the command which Moses received (see Leviticus 23:2), he explained to the children of Israel the number and motive of these festivals. This verse therefore forms an appropriate conclusion to the whole chapter.
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**7-19. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy--**The minute specification of the incestuous and unnatural crimes here enumerated shows their sad prevalence amongst the idolatrous nations around, and the extreme proneness of the Israelites to follow the customs of their neighbors. It is to be understood, that, whenever mention is made that the offender was "to be put to death" without descr...
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**Verses 33-44**
In the feast of Tabernacles there was a remembrance of their dwelling in tents, or booths, in the wilderness, as well as their fathers dwelling in tents in Canaan; to remind them of their origin and their deliverance. Christ's tabernacling on earth in human nature, might also be prefigured. And it represents the believer's life on earth: a stranger and pilgrim here below, his ...
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